Jason Smith

CAR THIEF!

As you might remember, my car was broken into over the weekend. Dropped it off with the insurance company today, and am now in a rental (Chevy Malibu). It’s an automatic, and I feel like I’m doing nothing while I’m driving.

Anyway, I haven’t made a CD for a car of mine in over a year because I can run my iPhone into my car stereo and control it from the dash. I know, it’s the only actual luxury my car has. So, I usually just plug that sucker in on shuffle and bop around town. Yes, I’m a bopper. One who bops.

I don’t really want to drive around listening to The Strokes and The Reverend Horton Heat exclusively for however long the repairs take so I put a playlist together and decided to share it with you. There is no real theme except that they are songs I’m into lately and want to listen to while getting from Point A to Point B. Enjoy.

1. Watch Your Step - Welcome Home Walker
2. Modern Kicks - The Exploding Hearts
3. You’re Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl) - The White Stripes
4. And Then He Kissed Me - Asobi Seksu
5. Common People - Pulp
6. Speaking In Tongues - Teenage Cool Kids
7. Egg Man - Beastie Boys
8. I Can’t Explain - The Who
9. Lies - The Knickerbockers
10. (I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea - Elvis Costello
11. Penny Reel - Eric Morris
12. One Of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) - Bob Dylan
13. Stop Your Sobbing - The Pretenders
14. Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
15. Victoria - The Kinks
16. We Repel Each Other - Reigning Sound
17. All Kings Are The Same - The Strange Boys
18. Fish - The Damned
19. Love Comes In Spurts - Richard Hell & The Voidoids
20. Garbageman - The Cramps
21. Girl In Love - Smith Westerns
22. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind - Thao With The Get Down Stay Down

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^{*Mix tapes available for five days after posting}

Dig On This

I remember being a kid and my parents always playing the Oldies station. Of course I loved it, and then Jr. High came around and suddenly I was embarrassed to like anything that wasn’t on MTV. Sometime during High School the station changed formats and stopped playing anything before the British Invasion. I wouldn’t even know where to look on the radio for this stuff anymore.

Not that is was a big deal to me then, but lately I’ve been really into some Motown/Northern Soul.  This is a quick 10 song mix I put together that I think is pretty strong.

1. Gino Is A Coward - Gino Washington
2. 31 Flavors - The Shirelles
3. I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) - The Four Tops
4. You Can’t Hurry Love - The Supremes
5. Runaway - Del Shannon
6. Come See About Me - Nella Dodds
7. Stay - The Hollies
8. Laisse Tomber Les Filles - France Gall
9. Whiplash - The Shells
10. You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me - The Miracles

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^{*Mix tapes available for five days after posting}

Just A Taste

I put together a little mix. I’ve been digging on a lot of garage rock lately. Enjoy.

1. Woman, Love & A Man - Tony Clarke
2. Lilly Mae - Johnny Sayles
3. My Baby Likes To Boogaloo - Don Gardner
4. Bumble Boogie - B. Bumbe & The Stingers
5. Caught You Red Handed - Jolly Green Giants
6. Who Do You Love - The Woolies
7. Night Time - The Strangeloves
8. Run Chicken Run - Link Wray
9. Sorry - The Easybeats
10. Take Me Home (Back To Boone) - Black Lips
11. You Owe Your Life To The Streets - The Fresh & Onlys
12. Island Ave - Jacuzzi Boys
13. Heart of Sadness - Sonny & The Sunsets
14. Friendly Ghost - Harlem
15. This Mess I’m In - Shapes Have Fangs
16. No Escape - The Seeds
17. Poem Party - The Strange Boys
18. If You Can’t Give Me Everything - Reigning Sound

Get it here, or click the picture. If you end up liking any of this find a way to get money to the artist.

UPDATE: Mix Tapes are available for 5 days after posting.